Cup filling device



April 3, 1934. cs. SARDO CUP FILLING DEVICE Filed May 15. 1931 l V E N TO R G/ USEPPE 50200 BY HIS ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 3, 1934 hurrah staresearner orricr.

. 1,953,833 our rntnrNo DEVICE Giuseppe Sardo, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application May 15, 1931, Serial No. 537,593

3 Claims. 226-49) This invention relates to cup filling devices andouter end, with an under side opening 12, through in particular to onearranged for use in the fillwhich extends, an ejector spring arm 13. Theing of paper cups with an ice or other like coninner end 14 of thespring arm is positioned withfection. in the tubular handle and pressesagainst the 5 Ices heretofore have been dispensed in rigid inner wall ofsaid handle as at 15, it being under- 60 paper cups or containers, therigid container bestood that the ejector spring arm is made of ingnecessary in order that the cup itself might spring .steel and can beflexed by the grip of be filled from a scoop or other filling utensiland the hand to bend the same up to the position the particular objectof my invention is to proillustrated in outline as at 16. The ejectorspring vide a cup filling device in which may be placed arm in itsexposed portion provides a hand hold 65 a paper cup of thinconstruction, the invention wherebyit can be flexed as described. Theend contemplating the supporting of the paper cup of the ejector springarm 13 is secured in any from both its upper, rolled edge and the bottomsuitable manner as at 17 to an ejector plate or thereof so that thepaper cup holding device may disk 18 which normally rests and bearsagainst be used as a scoop without danger of collapsing the closedbottom 6 of the cup 5 by reason of the 70 the paper cup held therein,the invention also tendency of the spring arm to open up due tocontemplating the quick ejection of the filled cup its springy nature.so that dispensing of the ice cup may be readily The ejector plate fitssnugly in the bottom of performed. the cup 5 and provides a support uponwhich 20 A still further object of my invention is to rests the bottom19 of the paper cup 10, the dis- 75 provide a sanitary cup fillingdevice in which tance from the annular head 8 of the cup to the thepaper cup that is to be filled with the ice or upper surface of theejector plate 18 being an confection is not handled by the dispenser,the important consideration inasmuch as the cup cup being placed in thedevice and the same being must be supported by itself so that it willnot '25 used as a scoop to fill the cup after which it is becomedistorted under the pressure of filling 80 ejected by pressure on a partdesigned for that during a scooping movement of the filling devicepurpose. in a can of ice or similar confection.

Changes and variations may be made in the The bead 8 supports the rollededge 9 at the construction shown and described without deupper end ofthe paper cup and prevents its parting from the principles of theinvention or collapse while the bottom of the paper cup is 5 sacrificingits chief advantages; hence such insupported flatly on the ejector plate18 and convention is not to be confined to the structures sequently, thecup, being supported at two points, shown in the accompanying drawing:that is, its top and bottom, is prevented from Figure 1 is a view insectional elevation of a collapsing or becoming so distorted at itsbotcup filling device constructed in accordance with tom that itswithdrawal from the filling device 90 my invention. is retarded.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the cup filling The ejector spring arm 13operates through a device illustrated in Figure 1, and suitable slot 20provided in the wall of the cup 5 Figure 3 is a fragmentary portion ofthe upper and extending from the bottom thereof upwardend of a cupfilling device employing a different ly to a point 21 of sumcient heightto permit 95. method of supporting the rolled edge of a paper operationof the ejector plate to raise the filled D positioned in the fillingdevice. cup 10 sufficiently above the level of the top of Referring tothe drawing in detail, 5 indicates the cup 5 to enable it to be removedby the hand a cylindrical cup, preferably made of metal and of the onedispensing the confection and, as ilhaving a closed bottom 6 therein. Inthe pre l trated in outline, in Figure 1. 100

' ferred form of my inVentiGn and in Order It will be noted that thehandle 11 is soldered Produce the device a5 Cheaply as possible, the orotherwise secured to the cup 5 and when 2. upper Open e d of t D may v red filling operation is performed, the handle 11 only therein as at 8,an annular bead which forms a is grasped so that there is no tendency tolift shelf upon which rests the rolled edge 9 of the the ejector plateduring a filling operation but 105 4 paper cup 10 to be positioned inthe cup 5 preas soon as the device has completed its scoop paratory tothe filling of the same with an ice movement to fill the paper cup, theejector spring or like confection. arm is engaged by a finger of thehand holding The cup 5 is provided with a horizontally exthe handle 11and drawn up to eject the cup 10 tending, tubular handle 11, providednear its from the cup 5. llO

It is evident, from inspection of Figure 3, that instead of rolling anannular head 8 in the cup 5, use may be made of a wire 22, which may bein the form of a ring and soldered or otherwise suitably securedadjacent the upper, open edge of the cup 5, this ring 22 also providinga support for the rolled edge 9 of the cup 10 to prevent its collapseinto the cup 5 against the pressure of the ice when the device is usedin its scooping movement.

It is evident, therefore, that I have provided a cup filling device inthe nature of a scoop in which may be positioned, a thin paper cup whichcan be filled without danger of collapsing and which can be quicklyremoved from the filling device at substantially the same time that thefilling movement or operation is completed.

My invention is not to be restricted to the precise details ofconstruction shown since various changes and modifications may be, madetherein without departing from the scope of the invention or sacrificingthe advantages derived from its use.

What I claim is:

1. A filling device comprising a slotted cup, a handle therefor, anejector plate in the cup, an ejector arm passing through said slotconnecting the handle and the plate, and an annular inwardly turnedsupporting bead adjacent the open end of said cup for supporting theupper edge of a paper cup to be filled.

2. A filling device comprising a slotted cup, a handle therefor, anejector plate, a spring arm connecting said handle and plate and passingthrough said slot, and a receptacle supporting inwardly turned beadadjacent the open end of said cup.

3. A filling device comprising a slotted cup, a tubular handle therefor,an ejector plate disposed in said cup, a spring arm connecting saidhandle and plate and passing through said slot, the free end of said armbeing positioned in said handle, and a paper cup supporting beadadjacent the upper end of the cup.

GIUSEPPE SARDO.

